![]() ![]() Those early models really hold up! The scenic base is really - nice! Really happy to see these older models getting love. Wow, already the response to this has been so great! Thanks for everybody who's shared something so - Legolas is looking great! I always liked the scale on the LotR models that GW put out, they were a lot more proportional than the other ranges. Lastly, the eyes and noses of those skull kneepads would be shaded with something other than black. As it is the black is too flat, the metal too shiny and the creamy white washes out the detail. Washes would be used in abundance, especially on the hair and faces of the termies, the metals and the many, many skulls. Captain Purple would also benefit from shading and highlighting. I haven't painted black armour since, I think, so I'd need to look up a technique that's more than a flat coat of black. I certainly wouldn't paint every detail on the Chaplain's torso bright silver, it needs different metal shades at the very least. I actually do quite like that purple, though it's a bit of an overwhelming spot colour on the crozius haft. The bolter barrels would get drilled, the bases would get a texture to cover up the slotta tabs and the figures would be undercoated, but I'd keep mostly the same pallet. ![]() Apparently I also really liked that purple, though I don't know which specific colour it is and I only had two metallic paints, gun metal and shiny metal. Simply, with no techniques except a single coat of slightly-too-thick paint. ![]() I will say that I'm still quite proud of the staring eyes on that purple Space Marine, and the colours are mostly "inside the lines". I know I bought the chaplain in a blister, I'm not so sure of the terminators, but these are all original paint jobs. Some really nice minis in this thread already, so it is with regret that I lower the standard, but old minis mean old paint I can't wait to see what you all have to share! Also ~ the next modeles I post will be ones that I painted less than ten years ago, promise! I think this model really holds up - it's a bit smaller than the new CSM coming out, but it's got so much great detail on it that more than makes up for it. I liked the paint job so much that when I got back in last year I painted all of my chaos marines in the white and orange. Here's a quick shot of a now out of print Chaos Lord model - the first Chaos Lord I ever bought! I remember I had a really crappy paint job on him and stripped and repainted him my last year of High School, which was the last year I did any hobby stuff for a long time (you can still see areas where the paint didn't come off completely, and it's still a bit lumpy looking). I have a lot more I'd like to show you, and I hope to post them over the next few days. Lastly, I had a whole bunch of velociraptor models laying around that I put together when I was like five, so I plopped him onto the base and added some lizardman swag to make him look liike a pet.Ībout eight years later I'm visiting my parents and the Slaan's still sitting on my shelf, so I figured I'd take him home with me and put him on my shelf! Hope you like him. The snake I remember making out of greenstuff and am now frankly a little embarassed by, but looking back on it I think it's kind of cute. I included Tenhenhuan's little helper holding up the block of glyphs, and I added a skink attendant and sculpted a hand holding a skull. I ended up saving the Saurus Guard for other projects, and I built a little plinth for him out of a round 40 mm base and piece of a brick wall kit that some friends and I were using to make terrain. I found this model in a comic shop I used to go to in high school and it had been sitting on the shelf for god knows how long. ![]() I love the bloated decadence that he brings to bear. Back when he was held aloft by four Saurus Temple Guard. Conversion projects that are based on classic models in the range (what I'd especially like to see!)įirst up is an old Slaan Mage Priest. Models you've found in a bin sale or online and painted up with current techniques Models you bought new and are now out of print - how did you paint them then, how would you revisit them now? I'd like to share a few with you, and I'd like to see what's been sitting on your shelf! A big draw for me has always been the history and materiality of our little guys, and I like to collect retro models, some of which have been out of print since before I started the hobby in the early 2000s or even before I was born. As I'm sure is the case with a lot of you, I have a lot of nostalgia for older and out of print models from our various wargames. ![]()
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